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Women Economic Leadership ( Manipuri Handloom promotion)
General
Aims to improve life and livelihood of ethnic communities through leadership and organisational capacity building to assert rights, land rights and primary education enrollment. Support for preventing land grabbing, linkage building, livelihood promotion and economic empowerment activities as an integrated part of this project. Also build greater resilience to overcome the shocks caused by climate change and natural disaster. The fund will be spent for staff salary, training, mobilization workshop seminar supported by the Danish Embassy. Moreover, a pilot project has been includes for ethnic Manipuri handloom by the unrestricted fund.
Green Livelihoods Alliance 2 Cameroon
General
Cameroon boasts a huge variety of flora and fauna, spread over about 20 million hectares of tropical rainforest. About four million people live in and around these forests, including a large percentage of indigenous people such as the Baka and Bagyeli. The forest is part of the second largest rainforest in the world, through which the great Congo River flows. It plays a key role in combating dangerous climate change. But the forests in Cameroon are under severe threat. Investments in logging, industrial agriculture and mining are increasing as well as deforestation. By 2020, Cameroon lost 100,000one hundred thousand hectares of rainforest. Land rights of indigenous and local communities are not formally recognized. Land grabbing and other human rights violations by large corporations in the timber or agriculture sectors are commonplace. Forest activists who stand up for these rights are subject to intimidation, threats or violence.
Objectives
Over the past five years we have put a halt to new plantations and logging permits. For example, the Ebo forest was protected from logging, saving 130 hectares of rainforest. In the coming years, Cameroon’s GLA program aims to increase and strengthen the influence and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. We advocate for a methodology to represent them in corporate and political processes that deal with land and natural resources. The base is proper monitoring by local forest-, and human rights activists to document violations. On top of this, we will continue to campaign nationally and internationally for greater recognition and protection for indigenous and local people, and engage in resistance or use grievance procedures for redress in cases of (human) rights violations and deforestation.
Participation and Opportunities for Women Economic Rights (POWER)
General
The Project by the end of 24 months POWER will strengthen the eco-feminist movement to promote and protect the economic rights of marginalised women affected by compulsory land acquisition in four districts in Northern (Nwoya, Amaru) and Western (Hoima and Buliisa) Uganda at a critical time when 300,000 women have been displaced and an additional one million women are at risk of displacement. The project will contribute to the SDG target that all women enjoy equal rights to “economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property and natural resources”. As primary beneficiaries 1,000 women will receive legal support and training and awareness raising in women’s rights and alternative livelihoods. These women will share their learning with 6,000 secondary beneficiaries ensuring in excess of 5,380 women are inputting into decision-making affecting their land ownership and livelihoods at local, national and international levels to advocate for policy change and improve access to justice.
Dryland livelihoods research and support programme
General
The project aims to develop user -friendly step -by -step manual for PLUP (Participatory Land Use Planning) in rangelands targeted to local government experts for use in preparing local plans, to secure commitment from Government and development partners to landscape level land use, natural resource management and disaster risk reduction planning, including: coordination of partners on evidence generation and advocacy; Government engagement, planned learning and research activities; dissemination of lessons learned as part of the advocacy strategy; engagement with Government to create demand and space for sharing civil society experiences
African Elephant Conservation Fund
General
The project will strengthen the long term conservation of elephants in and around Kasanka National Park in Zambia by increasing law enforcement and community outreach capacity. Specific activities will include operational support to one scout patrol group; purchase of one law enforcement vehicle, operational support to the human elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation program as well as expanding the elephant routes database for land use planning.